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Definition: Horrible |
HorribleAdjective1. Provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "horrible" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Horrible \Hor"ri*ble\, adjective. [from Old English expression horrible, orrible, Old French horrible, orrible, French horrible, from the Latin expression horribilis, from horrere. See Horror.]. (references) |
Synonyms: HorribleSynonyms: atrocious (adj), frightful (adj), horrifying (adj), ugly (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Inspiring fear; Verb: alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous; (danger); portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting; (painful); Gorgonian. |
Inexpedience | Bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible; dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core. |
Pain | Odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent; horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying; offensive. |
Ugliness | Frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre; grody, grody to the max; horrid, horrible; shocking; (painful). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Horrible |
| English words defined with "horrible": Horribleness, horror ♦ lurid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "horrible": Bammer, Beef, Bleeding, Brick-tea, buried treasure ♦ Entrails, Existence ♦ FRYING ♦ Inventors Punished, Iron Maiden of Nuremberg ♦ JUNE 17 ♦ Lybius ♦ Microsoft ♦ Owl in an Ivy Bush ♦ Robert Macaire ♦ SHEIST. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "horrible": Horrisonous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Horrible" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (abhorrent, abominable, alien, atrocious, awful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrific, lurid, nasty, repellent, repelling, repulsive, ugly), Spanish (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, appalling, awful, bleak, dire, direful, dirty, dismal, dread, dreary, evil, formidably, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, lousy, lurid, moldy, mouldy, nasty, shocking, stinking, terrible, terror, vile, wicked). |
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Screenplays | You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) He thought the world was a horrible place (Shadow of a Doubt; writing credit: Gordon McDonell; Thornton Wilder) It's horrible! In a gemutlich sort of way. (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus) They were indeed horrible destructive women (Brigadoon; writing credit: Alan Jay Lerner) He helped dozens of people who were in horrible pain and what did you do (That's My Bush!; writing credit: Alon Kaplan) | |
Clever | Money is an excellent servant, but a horrible master. (references; author: unknown) If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | El Horrible ser nunca visto (1966) Horrible Hyde (1915) The Horrible Example (1913) Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible (2001) Hägar the Horrible (1989) | |
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 | Photograph by M. James Slack, April 1934. (Reproduction Number: HABS NM,31-ACOM,1-32) Visited for the first time by Europeans in 1540, Acoma Pueblo is one of the oldest inhabited villages in the U.S. Located on top of a 357-foot rock mesa, the pueblo was the setting for many confrontations between European colonizers and the Acoma people, including a horrible massacre in 1599 by the Spanish soldiers who controlled the area. These flat-roofed houses made of adobe brick--a Spanish technique--show the Spanish influence on local building traditions. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The blackness of that night in our little prairie town was like the horrible blackness that fell upon Pompeii when Vesuvius destroyed it, said Rosselyn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The horrible example. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pogo]. What a horrible fate. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Horrible examples of Nazi brutality found by the American 3rd Armd [sic] Div., FUSA when it captured the German slave labor camp at Nordhausen ... Starved, almost blind Russian hobbles to an American ambulance / Roberts. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A horrible monster glared at them. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Meeting room" by Laurent Cottier Commentary: "Just after one of my first meeting...Me at the end of the table and all my directors on the other chairs... horrible moment..." |
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Aristophanes | You have all the characteristics of a poplular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. |
Edgar Allan Poe | I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. |
Jean De La Bruyere | If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye! |
St. Ignatius Loyola | Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison. |
William Shakespeare | Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | What a horrible idea |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There he was, almost incapable of reflection and motion, as if annihilated by such horrible things in so close proximity |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Of all the plagues with which the land of the Pharaohs was smitten one plague alone, that of darkness, was called horrible. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I went into another chamber, but was ready to hasten back, being almost overcome with a horrible stink |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem: From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!" |
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Frank Lindh | Well, Dan, I'm very troubled by that statement as well. I would just ask you to consider the fact that he was being pressed by a reporter after being pulled out of the basement of a prison where he went through that horrible ordeal. |
John Walsh | I've seen the worst of society and I've seen the best. When I was at Ground Zero I saw the horrible homicides that were committed there and the sadness, but I saw the best of America. |
Laura Schlessinger | Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing. It's against the order of things and ultimately we feel that the epitome of compassion and caretaking and responsibility. |
Nancy Grace | I look up to them. Because they took a horrible thing that could have broken a normal person, and they turned it into something wonderful. And they do good. |
Rich Cohen | We were together every day. We did ditched school, we went to the Cub's games, we experimented with drinking, with drugs, which is like a horrible thing for my parents to find out. |
Rudolph Giuliani | Sure, and that's tragic. And I think I feel horrible for Mr. Diallo's family. And when it first happened, I called his father and helped his father come to the United States. We would do anything to try to reverse the incident. |
Sylvia Browne | Oh, and you're screaming in your heads. And you're like this. Oh, it's horrible. You say to God, please let me make a fast exit and entrance. |
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| "Horrible" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.50% of the time. "Horrible" is used about 1,679 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.5% | 1,637 | 5,082 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.5% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,679 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "horrible": horrible-long, horrible-looking, horrible-tasting. | |
Ending with "horrible": semi-horrible. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "horrible"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | onaangenaam (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, nasty), angswekkend, angstig (afraid, fearful), afskuwelik (abhorrent, abominable, abysmal, alien, awful, dreadful, gruesome, hideous, terrible), afsigtelik (dismal, dreary, nasty), afgryslik (agonizing, dismal, dreary, ghastly, hideous, nasty), aaklig (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, hideous, nasty). (various references) | |
Albanian | tronditës (appallingly, electric, emotive, shocking, thrilling), tepër i pakëndshëm (chronic), i urryer (confounded, cursed, foul, hateful, heinous, invidious, loathful, loathsome), i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous), i përçudnuar (monstrous), i lemerishëm (dreadful, grisly, horrid, terrible), i frikshëm (bloodcurdling, dreadful, eerie, eery, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, horrid, morbid, redoubtable, redoubted, terrific, tremendous). (various references) | |
Arabic | فظيع (abominable, atrocious, detestable, flagrant, gross, hideous, horrid, monstrous, outrageous, shocking, terrible, ugly), كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, frightful, hateful, loathsome, nasty, objectionable, odious, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sickening, sour, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), مفزع (appallingly, awful, dread, dreadful, frightening, frightful, sanctuary, startling, terrible), مروع (alarmed, appalling, awful, dreadful, frightened, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrific, horrified, horrifying, macabre, panic stricken, scared, shocked, shocking, startled, startling, terrified, terrifying, terror stricken, terrorized), مرعب (alarming, appalling, awesome, dreadful, frightening, frightful, hair raising, horrific, horrifying, terrible, terrific, terrifying), رهيب (bloodcurdling, bloody, chilly, dire, dreadful, fearful, fierce, grisly, gruesome, hairy, holy, horrific, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, nightmarish, redoubtable, smashing, super, terrible, wretched). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | страшен (alarming, almighty, apocalyptic, awesome, awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, redoubtable, scary, terrible, terrific, tremendous, wicked), ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), безобразен (disgraceful, monstrous, outrageous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 可怕 (awful, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, hideous, terrible, terribly). (various references) | |
Czech | hrozný (abysmal, appalling, atrocious, awful, damnable, dire, dreadful, excruciating, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grim, hateful, hellish, mortal, terrible, terrific, tremendous), hnusný (abhorrent, beastly, detestable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, feculent, foul, loathsome, revolting, stinking, verminous, vile), strašný (awful, chronic, dire, distressing, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, hairy, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrific, terrible, tremendous), odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hateful, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile). (various references) | |
Danish | ubehagelig (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, nasty), skrækkelig (abysmal, dreadful, gruesome, terrible), rædsom (abysmal, alarmed, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, put out of countenance, terrible), forfærdelig (abysmal, alarmed, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, put out of countenance, terrible), afskyelig (dismal, dreary, ghastly, hideous, nasty). (various references) | |
Dutch | huiveringwekkend (gaunt, ghastly, gruesome), afzichtelýk (dismal, dreary, nasty), foeilelijk (nasty), foeilelýk (dismal, dreary, nasty), beangstigend, angstwekkend, angstaanjagend, ýselýk (abhorrent, abominable, abysmal, alien, awful, dreadful, gruesome, hideous, terrible), afzichtelijk (nasty), afschuwelijk (gruesome, hideous), afschuwelýk (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, nasty), afgrijselijk (abominable, awful, ghastly, hideous), afgrijselijk (gruesome, hideous), afgrýselýk (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, nasty), ijselijk (gruesome, hideous, terrible), akelig (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, nasty), verdrietelijk (nasty, sad), vreselýk (abysmal, dreadful, gruesome, terrible), vervelend (bleak, boring, bothersome, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, nasty, stodgy, tiresome, weary), vervaarlijk (gruesome, terrible), vervaarlýk (abysmal, dreadful, gruesome, terrible), verschrikkelijk (gruesome, terrible), verschrikkelýk (abysmal, awfully, dreadful, gruesome, terrible), gruwelýk, verfoeilýk (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, gruesome, hideous), gruwelijk, verdrietelýk (bleak, deplorable, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, nasty, pitiable, sad), schrikaanjagend (abysmal, dreadful, gruesome, terrible), onaangenaam (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, nasty), naar (about, according as, according to, along, as, bleak, by, dismal, dreary, for, ghastly, grisly, ill, long for, nasty, sick, to, toward, towards, untranslated, unwell, yearn), luguber (gaunt, ghastly, gruesome), vreselijk (gruesome, terrible), verfoeilijk (gruesome, hideous). (various references) | |
Esperanto | timtremiga (gaunt, ghastly, gruesome), timiga, terurega (ghastly, hideous), terura (abysmal, dreadful, gruesome, terrible), malbelega (dismal, dreary, nasty), malagrabla (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, nasty), kruelega, abomeninda (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, gruesome, hideous), abomena (dismal, dreary, ghastly, hideous, nasty). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ræðuligur (abysmal, dreadful, gruesome, terrible). (various references) | |
Farsi | مهیب (Grisly, Gruesome, Hideous, Horrendous, Horrid, Macabre, Terrific, Tremendous, Ugsome), موحش (Lurid, Redoubtable), مخوف (Ghastly, Gruesome, Hideous, Ugsome), ناگوار (Burdensome, Harsh, Unpleasant, Unsavory), سهمگین (Hideous), رشت . (various references) | |
Finnish | hirvittävä (grievous, hideous, horrid), hirmuinen (dreadful, frightful, terrible), kauhea (awful, dreadful, frightful, terrible). (various references) | |
French | affreux (horrid), terrible, horrible (horrific), atroce, épouvantable (horrid, horrific). (various references) | |
Frisian | in griis (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, gruesome, hideous), aaklik (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, nasty), ûnhuerich (dismal, dreary, nasty, quite, very, very much), ûnhuer (dismal, dreary, nasty), ôfgryslik (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, ghastly, gruesome, hideous). (various references) | |
German | entsetzlich (abysmal, abysmally, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, dire, dreadful, excruciating, frightful, gruesome, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrendously, horribly, horrid, horridly, horrific, horrifying, outrageous, racking, shocking, shockingly, sickening, terrible, unspeakable), schrecklich (abominably, abysmal, appalling, awful, awfully, dire, direly, dreadful, dreadfully, fearful, fearfully, formidable, frantic, frightful, frightfully, grim, gruesome, horrendous, horrid, horridly, horrific, horrifying, indescribable, indescribably, lurid, luridly, monstrously, painfully, shockingly, terrible, terribly, terrificly, terrifying, tremendous, tremenduously), abscheulich (abhorrent, abominable, abominably, atrocious, awful, bloody, damnable, damnably, detestable, detestably, execrable, execrably, execrative, flagrant, flagrantly, hateful, heinous, heinously, hideous, horrendous, horrendously, horribly, loathsome, mean, monstrous, nasty, obnoxious, odious, outrageous, outrageously, putrid, repulsive, revolting, terrible, terribly, vile), garstig (dismal, dreary, ghastly, haggish, hideous, nasty, ugly, unlovely). (various references) | |
Greek | φρικώδησ, φρικτόσ (appalling, atrocious, dire, direful, dismals, ghastly, gruesome, hideous), απαίσιος (appaling, atrocious, awful, despicable, execrable, foul, nasty). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחריד (appalling, dreadful, grim, grisly, horrific, macabre), מבהיל, זועתי (atrocious, frightful, grisly, horrific). (various references) | |
Hungarian | borzasztó (astounding, awful, dreadful, fearsome, god-awful, gruesome, horrendous, terrible, terrific, tremendous), szörnyû (abysmal, awful, deadly, dire, dismal, dreadful, grisly, gruesome, monstrous, terrible, terrific, tremendous), iszonyú (horrendous, terrific). (various references) | |
Icelandic | hryllilegur (abhorrent, abominable, abysmal, alarmed, alien, awful, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, hideous, put out of countenance, terrible), hræðilegur (abysmal, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, nasty, terrible), viðbjóðslegur (dismal, dreary, ghastly, hideous, nasty), andstyggilegur (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, gruesome, hideous), óþægilegur (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, nasty). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengerikan (appall, bloodcurdling, excruciating, grisly, gruesome, harrowing, horrid, macabre), menakutkan (alarm, awful, chiller, daunt, dreadful, ercy, ghastly, horrify, terrify). (various references) | |
Italian | orribile (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, beastly, dreadful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrific, macabre, revolting, shocking), orrendo (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrid, nasty, revolting, terrible), mostruoso (abominable, awful, dismal, dreary, enormous, hideous, Mega, monster, monstrous, nasty, rotten, undelightful, vast), terribile (abysmal, appaling, appalling, awful, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, gruesome, splitting, terrible, terrific, tremendous), spiacevole (bleak, disconcerting, dismal, displeasing, dreary, embarassing, evil, ghastly, grisly, invidious, miserable, nasty, regrettable, sticky, uncomfortable, unpleasant), sgradevole (bad, bleak, disagreeable, dismal, distasteful, dreary, ghastly, grisly, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unsightly), schifoso (disgusting, dismal, dreadful, dreary, foul, lousy, nasty, poisonous, revolting, rotten, verminous). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 最低 (disgusting, least, lowest, nasty, worst, yuck!), 惨烈 (atrocious, cruel), 惨澹 (pitiful, wretched), 戦慄 (hair-raising, shiver, shudder, terrible, tremble with fear), 小憎らしい (provoking). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さいてい (arbitration, award, decision, disgusting, least, lowest, nasty, ruling, second time, worst, yuck!), さんたん (admiration, extollment, pitiful, praise, repeatedly crying, tragic, wretched), さんれつ (atrocious, attendance, cruel, participation, presence), せんりつ (hair-raising, melody, shiver, shudder, terrible, tremble with fear), こにくらしい (provoking). (various references) | |
Korean | 무서운 (Dire, Fearful, frightening, frightful, scary). (various references) | |
Manx | graynoil (abhorrent, horrid, loathsome, repellent, repulsive). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ubehagelig (bleak, disagreeable, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, nasty), skrekkelig (abysmal, dreadful, frightful, gruesome, hideous, terrible), fryktelig (atrocious, dreadful, fearful), forferdelig (abysmal, alarmed, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, horrifying, put out of countenance, terrible). (various references) | |
Papiamen | horibel (abysmal, dreadful, gruesome, terrible), teribel (abysmal, dreadful, gruesome, terrible), feroso (abysmal, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, nasty, terrible), feros (abysmal, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, nasty, terrible), desagradabel (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, nasty), abominabel (abhorrent, abject, abominable, abysmal, alien, awful, disdainful, disgusting, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, nasty, nauseous, terrible). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orriblehay.(various references) | |
Polish | straszny (abysmal, dreadful, gruesome, terrible), okropny (abysmal, dreadful, gruesome, terrible). (various references) | |
Portuguese | horrendo (dire, dismal, dreary, gruesome, hair-raising, heinous, nasty). (various references) | |
Romanian | straşnic (clinking, colossal, considerable, damnably, excellent, excessive, extreme, fine, gee, goody, grand, jolly, magnificent, mightily, nifty, proper, properly, rigorous, severe, severely, smashing, solid, some, sound, stern, swell, terrible, terribly, thundering, tremendous, with a vengeance), sinistru (awful, awfully, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, horribly, lugubrious, lugubriously, luridly, sinister), oribil (abominable, detestable, gruesome, hideous, hideously, horribly, horrid, horrific, monstrous), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), groaznic (appalling, awful, awfully, baleful, desperate, dire, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, groovy, gruesome, horrendous, horrent, horribly, horrid, howling, lousy, miserable, miserably, monstrous, sad, scary, shocking, terrible, terribly, vile), fioros (atrocious, dreadful, fell, ferocious, fierce, macabre, truculent), crunt (awful, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, cruel, dreadful, sharp, terrible, violent), abominabil (abominable, abominably, detestable, dire, execrable, hateful), înspãimântãtor (appalling, awsome, dread, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, frightfully, ghastly, ghostlike, horrid, howling, terrible, terrific, tremendous, unearthly), îngrozitor (abominable, appalling, awful, awfully, beastly, desperate, direful, dreadful, grisly, hideous, shocking, terrible, terribly, terrific, tremendous), înfricoşãtor (awful, dire, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrent, horrifying, terrifying). (various references) | |
Russian | ужасный (appalling, atrocious, awful, blood-curding, chilling, chronic, damnable, damned, desperate, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruelling, gruesome, hair raising, hair-raising, hairy, heinous, horrendous, horrid, macabre, perishing, spooky, terrible, tragic, unearthy). (various references) | |
Scottish | uamhasach (awful, dreadful, shocking), sgreataidh (disgusting). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | užasan (appalling, atrocious, awful, dreadful, frightful, shocking, terrible), strahovit (dreadful, fearsome, frightful, scary, terrible, terrific), strašan (almighty, awful, dire, direful, dreadful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, horrid, howling, redoubtable, redoubted, terrible, terrific), jeziv (bloodcurdling, creepy, eerie, gruesome, lurid, macabre). (various references) | |
Spanish | horrible (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, appalling, awful, bleak, dire, direful, dirty, dismal, dread, dreary, evil, formidably, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrid, lousy, lurid, moldy, mouldy, nasty, shocking, stinking, terrible, terror, vile, wicked), abominable (abhorrent, abominable, abominably, alien, awful, damnably, detestable, gruesome, hideous, infamous, rotten, ugly, undelightful, unspeakable), temeroso (afraid, apprehensive, fearful, scary, timidly, timorous), lúgubre (bleak, dark, dismal, dreary, forbidding, gash, gaunt, ghastly, grisly, lugubrious, mournful, nasty), horroroso (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hideous, horrid, horrifying, nasty, wicked). (various references) | |
Swedish | ryslig (atrocious, dreadful, gruesome, horrific, plaguey, plaguy), ohygglig (appalling, atrocious, awful, monstrous), gruvlig (agonizing, dreadful, ghastly, hideous), fruktansvärd (awful, fearful, formidable, heinous, redoubtable, tearing, terrible, terrific), fasansfull (atrocious, terrible, terrifying). (various references) | |
Thai | น่าเกลียดน่ากลัว (ghoulish, gorgon). (various references) | |
Turkish | korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), aynasiz (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, nasty). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | страшний (awful, blood-curdling, dread, frantic, frightful, ghastly, grisly, hair raising, horrid, terrible), роман жахів, огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched), жах (consternation, horror, nightmare, terror). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kinh khiếp kinh tởm, kinh khủng (desperate, direful, formidable, horrendous, horrid, horrific, tremendous). (various references) | |
Welsh | erchyll (atrocious, hideous), echryslon (direful, shocking), arswydus (awful, dreadful, fearful, terrible). (various references) | |
Yucatec | hach k'as (abysmal, dangerous, dreadful, gruesome, terrible). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abominabilis, acidus, amarus, atrox, aversabilis, dira, dirae, dirus, horrendas, horrende, horrendi, horrendos, horrendum, horrendus, horribile, horribiles, horribili, horribilia, horribilis, horribilium, horrida. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | atelic. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Jeremiah Chapter 5, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | EkstasiV kai frikta egenhqh epi thV ghV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Stupor et mirabilia facta sunt in terra |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Stoneyng and merueiles ben mad in the erthe; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Jeremiah Chapter 5, Verse 30 |
| Cebuano | Ang usa ka kahibulongan ug makalilisang nga butang maoy nahitabo sa yuta. |
| Chinese | 國 中 有 可 驚 駭 、 可 憎 惡 的 事 ． |
| Croatian | Strahote i grozote zbivaju se u ovoj zemlji: |
| Danish | Gyselige, grufulde Ting går i Svang i Landet; |
| Dutch | Een schrikkelijke en afschuwelijke zaak geschiedt er in het land. |
| Finnish | Kauheita ja pöyristyttäviä tapahtuu maassa: |
| French | Des choses horribles, abominables, Se font dans le pays. |
| German | Es steht greulich und schrecklich im Lande. |
| Haitian Creole | Sa k'ap pase nan peyi a, se bagay pou moun mete men nan tèt, bagay pou fè moun pè. |
| Hungarian | Borzadalmas és rettenetes dolgok történnek e földön: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sesuatu yang dahsyat dan mengerikan telah terjadi di negeri ini: |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hebatlah dan kejilah adanya perkara yang berlaku di dalam negeri ini. |
| Italian | Cose spaventose e orribili avvengono nel paese. |
| Maori | Whakamiharo rawa, whakawehi rawa te mea e meatia ana ki te whenua; |
| Norwegian | Forferdelige og gruelige ting skjer i landet; |
| Portuguese | Coisa espantosa e horrenda tem-se feito na terra: |
| Rumanian | ,,Grozave lucruri, urkcioase lucruri se fac kn yarq. |
| Spanish | Cosas espantosas y horribles suceden en la tierra: |
| Swedish | Förfärliga och gruvliga ting ske i landet. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "horrible": horribleness, horriblenesses, horribles. (additional references) | |
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"Horrible" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haribul, horible, horribilus, horribles, horriblis, orribile, orrible, thuribles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "horrible" (pronounced hô"rubul) |
| 6 | -ô" r u b u l | adorable, deplorable. |
| 5 | -r u b u l | incurable, arable, bearable, curable, demonstrable, desirable, durable, execrable, impenetrable, terrible, nondurable, parable, repairable, unbearable, undesirable, uninsurable, wearable. |
| 4 | -u b u l | indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indestructible, indispensable, indisputable, indistinguishable, indivisible, indomitable, inedible, ineffable, ineligible, inequitable, inescapable, inevitable, inexcusable, inexhaustible, inexorable, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflatable, acceptable, accessible, abominable, accountable, achievable, actionable, adaptable, addressable, adjustable, admirable, admissible, adoptable, advisable, affable, affordable, agreeable, allowable, amenable, amendable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, answerable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arguable, attainable, attributable, audible, available, avoidable, bankable, believable, billable, biodegradable, breakable, buildable, burnable, callable, cannibal, capable, changeable, chargeable, charitable, classifiable, collapsible, collectible, Combinable, comfortable, commendable, communicable, comparable, compatible, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, considerable, constable, consumable, contemptible, contestable, controllable, convertible, copyrightable, countable, credible, creditable, crucible, culpable, debatable, deductible, defensible, definable, degradable, delectable, deliverable, dependable, deployable, depreciable, describable, despicable, detachable, detectable, determinable, developable, digestible, disagreeable, discernible, discountable, discoverable, dishonorable, dispensable, disposable, disreputable, distinguishable, divisible, doable, drinkable, drivable, eatable, edible, electable, eligible, Embraceable, employable, enforceable, enjoyable, enviable, equable, equitable, erasable, erodible, estimable, exchangeable, excitable, excludable, excusable, exercisable, expandable, expendable, explainable, exportable, extendable, extendible, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, favorable, feasible, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, forcible, foreseeable, forfeitable, forgettable, forgivable, formidable, fungible, fusible, gullible, habitable, harvestable, heritable, hon, honorable, hospitable, identifiable, illegible, imaginable, imitable, immiscible, immovable, immutable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, imperceptible, impermissible, implacable, implantable, implausible, imponderable, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, inaudible, incalculable, incapable, incomparable, incompatible, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incontrovertible, incorrigible, incredible, soluble, solvable, spendable, submersible, suggestible, suitable, supportable, survivable, susceptible, sustainable, syllable, talkable, tangible, taxable, teachable, tenable, inflexible, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, injectable, innumerable, inoperable, insatiable, inscrutable, inseparable, insoluble, insufferable, insupportable, insurmountable, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, interminable, interruptible, intolerable, intractable, invaluable, investable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, invulnerable, irascible, irreconcilable, irrefutable, irremediable, irreparable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresistible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, irritable, issuable, justifiable, knowledgeable, lamentable, laudable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, manageable, mandible, maneuverable, marketable, measurable, memorable, microwavable, miscible, miserable, moldable, movable, navigable, negligible, negotiable, noncallable, nonconvertible, nondeductible, nonrefundable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, notable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, operable, ostensible, palatable, palpable, passable, patentable, payable, peaceable, perceptible, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, persuadable, pitiable, plausible, pleasurable, pliable, portable, possible, potable, practicable, predictable, preferable, presentable, preventable, printable, probable, profitable, programmable, prosecutable, provable, punishable, questionable, quotable, reachable, readable, realizable, reasonable, receivable, rechargeable, recognizable, recordable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, redoubtable, reducible, refundable, regrettable, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, rentable, repayable, repeatable, replaceable, reportable, reprehensible, reputable, resealable, resettable, respectable, responsible, retractable, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, ridable, salable, saleable, salvageable, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, sizable, sizeable, sociable, tolerable, traceable, tractable, tradable, tradeable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, transmittable, transportable, treatable, tunable, typeable, unacceptable, unaccountable, unaffordable, unalienable, unalterable, unanswerable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbeatable, unbelievable, unbuildable, uncollectible, uncomfortable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, understandable, undetectable, unelectable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfavorable, unfeasible, unflappable, unforeseeable, unforgettable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninhabitable, unintelligible, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmanageable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unpalatable, unpredictable, unprintable, unprofitable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreadable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unstoppable, unsuitable, unsupportable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, variable, vegetable, venerable, verifiable, veritable, viable, visible, voluble, vulnerable, washable, winnable, workable. |
| 3 | -b u l | able, amble, assemble, babble, Babel, bauble, bible, bramble, bubble, Bumble, cable, cobble, coble, corbel, crumble, cymbal, dabble, Dibble, disable, disassemble, dissemble, double, Drabble, dribble, enable, enfeeble, ennoble, ensemble, fable, feeble, foible, fumble, gable, gamble, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, grumble, hardscrabble, herbal, hobble, humble, ignoble, immeasurable, immobile, squabble, Stabile, stable, stubble, stumble, symbol, table, intertribal, jumble, kibble, label, libel, marble, mislabel, mobile, mumble, nibble, nimble, noble, nonverbal, pebble, preamble, psychobabble, quibble, rabble, ramble, reassemble, rebel, redouble, relabel, resemble, Roble, rouble, roundtable, rubble, Ruble, rumble, sable, Scrabble, scramble, scribble, shamble, Sibyl, thimble, timetable, treble, tremble, tribal, trouble, tubal, tumble, turntable, umbel, unable, unscramble, unserviceable, unstable, valuable, verbal, wamble, wobble. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-h-i-l-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: broiler. | |
-2 letters: birler, boiler, holier, orbier, reboil. | |
-3 letters: birle, borer, brier, broil, helio, hirer, liber, obeli, oiler, oriel, reoil, roble. | |
-4 letters: bier, bile, birl, birr, boil, bole, bore, brie, brio, elhi, heil, heir, helo, herb, herl, hero, hire, hoer, hole, lehr, lier, lire, lobe, lore, orle, riel, rile, robe, roil, role. | |
-5 letters: bel, bio, bro. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-h-i-l-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: horribles. | |
+3 letters: charbroiled, charbroiler. | |
+4 letters: charbroilers, horribleness. | |
+5 letters: bibliographer, brotherliness, rehabilitator. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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